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What were they smoking when they came up with that idea and can I have some of it?
Then again, reading about this does give me an idea for a shitty alternate history story, and yes it involves Chris and a few other lolcows as well.
The point of divergence from our timeline is 1980, where Bob Chandler does not hook up with Barbara Weston.
Instead, he meets a woman named Sondra Gibson, who is much younger than him (as in he's in his fifties and she's eighteen or nineteen) and she is a very unstable gold digger who has a slew of mental and emotional issues that aren't apparent to Bob until a couple of years after they are married and Sondra is pregnant with Chris.
Chris is born in 1982, but since his mom was young and in good physical health, he isn't mute like he was in his early childhood years. He's still autistic and has terrible parents though.
Bob is old, out of touch, and in over his head. Sondra is more of a fun parent who coddles Chris and is more of a best friend figure for Chris instead of a parental figure. She is also deeply into the emerging Goth subculture and becomes obsessed with the occult, a trait that Chris picks up from her.
In the summer of 1991, two games are released that will change Chris's life in drastic ways.
One is Sonic The Hedgehog and the other is Vampire: The Masquerade. Sondra buys Vampire for herself and buys Sonic for Chris.
Soon, Sondra becomes interested in Sonic while Chris becomes enamored with the World of Darkness, and his mom often is the Storyteller for Vampire games. They even incorporate elements of the Sonic games into their Vampire: The Masquerade campaign (yes, really) and the two become further lost in a world of dark fantasy and delusion.
By 1996, Chris is in high school and has a small circle of female followers, most of whom are social outcasts to varying degrees. His gal-pals would join Chris in his weird vampire fantasies and would play the game with him and his mother, eventually buying into the delusions as deeply as he does.
In 2000, Chris graduates from high school and is running a Vampire LARP from The Game Place, a local gaming store. However, the LARP is practically a front for Chris's own little vampire cult and the group becomes increasingly involved in criminal activity around the Charlottesville area, with Mike Snyder completely oblivious to it all, while Chris's mom is a co-conspirator and Bob has resigned himself to setting Chris up on SSI and then washing his hands of the matter.
In 2004, Philip Haskins-DeLici moves down to Virginia from New Jersey with his father Angelo DeLici, a veteran of the Vietnam War and a devout hard-working Catholic.
Consequently, Philip is a devout traditional Catholic Christian with a deep hated of leftists and other groups he perceives as socially deviant. He soon learns of Chris and his vampire clan and is appalled. Phil decides to take action and counter Chris's delusions with his own hero fantasies.
Philip Haskins-Delici rechristens himself as Xochi Araujo, a vampire hunter working on behalf of the Spanish Inqusition and whose persona is heavily inspired by both Sasuke Uchiha and Hugh Jackman's Van Helsing. The two soon come into conflict.
In 2005, yet another Northeastern transplant by the name of Jace Connors moves to Ruckersville. Jace is a furry and a huge fan of Werewolf: The Apocalypse with the same level of delusional obsession for werewolves that Chris has for vampires. He even insists on being referred to as jack Stryker, his character's name.
He also has a small following of werewolf enthusiasts, including Eli, Tyce, and Sarah Gullibeaux, a low-functioning adult who adopts the persona of Soap the Wolf, and she is even more deluded than either Chris, Phil, or Jace, but is also very naive and innocent.
Now, what I am wondering is whether or not the above concept is worse than the majority of the amateur works posted on AH.com or if it's just on par with them.
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